A biography for Rufus Sewellhasn’t been written yet.
“My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.”
“I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.”
“I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.”
“I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.”
“I'd like an omelet named after me.”
“I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.”
“When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.”
“It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.”
“Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.”
“My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media.”
“Hollywood is my domestic idyll.”
“As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.”
“I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.”
“Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.”
“I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.”
“It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.”
“I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.”
“A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.”
“People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.”
“I don't know why the universe is so determined to keep my feet on the ground.”